Zhuravskyi Fedir Stepanovych (*circa 1660, Kyiv - †after 1742, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian singer, founder of the Imperial Court Choir. A graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Biography.
He graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where he also received a musical education. He sang in the KMA choir.
From 1685 he was a singer at the court chapel of Princess Maria Alekseevna in Moscow, and from 1689 - of Tsar Peter I. From about 1718 he was a singer in the choir of Princess Maria Ivanovna in St Petersburg.
In 1718, he was accused of conspiracy against Peter the Great and sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment. 1721-1730 - hard labour in Revel (now Tallinn, Estonia).
1731-1741 - singer, then founder of the Imperial Court Choir in St. Petersburg.
1741-1742 - a monk at the Moscow Donskoy Monastery of the Virgin Mary. In 1742, he returned to Kyiv, where he was the regent of the chapel of the Kyiv Cave Monastery.
